American Civil War
Mr. Lickteig
Fort Riley Middle School, KS
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| 6199109 | popular sovereignty | principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery | |
| 6199110 | Henry Clay | author of the Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise | |
| 6199111 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories in which slavery issues would be determined by popular sovereignty | |
| 6199112 | Gettysburg | a Union victory in this battle marked the last time Confederate forces attempted a major invasion of the North | |
| 6199113 | cost of producing cotton | In the 1800s, the widespread use of the cotton gin in the South decreased this | |
| 6199114 | sharecropping | After the Civil war, this new form of economics kept power in the hands of wealthy land owners and hurt African Americans | |
| 6199115 | increase in the price of goods | Because of a union blockade of goods to the South, less supply of goods meant an _______________ | |
| 6199116 | Dred Scott | Supreme Court ruling that denied that African Americans had rights as citizens | |
| 6199117 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican who wanted to prevent the spread of slavery | |
| 6199118 | secession | act of formally withdrawing from the Union | |
| 6199119 | sectionalism | devotion to the interests of one region rather than to those of the entire country is known as | |
| 6199120 | Stephen Douglas | this person set out to open Kansas and Nebraska to slavery in exchange for support of a western railroad to start in Chicago | |
| 6199121 | Pottawatomie Massacre | this attack by John Brown avenged the attack on the town of Lawrence | |
| 6199122 | Bleeding Kansas | the period of conflict in Kansas from 1850 to 1860 between pro and anti slavery forces in Kansas | |
| 6199123 | jayhawker | an anti-slavery person living in Kansas | |
| 6199124 | bushwhacker | a pro-slavery person living in Missouri | |
| 6199125 | Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America | |
| 6199126 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | book written by Harriett Beecher Stowe that was widely read and encouraged people to join the abolitionist cause | |
| 6199127 | South Carolina | the first state to seceed from the union | |
| 6199128 | Missouri Compromise | created in 1820, this created a "line" that banned slavery north in the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 6199129 | border states | four slave states of strategic importance to both the North and the South | |
| 6199130 | Antietam | the bloodiest single-day battle in American history | |
| 6199131 | Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the Western theatre for the North until 1864 | |
| 6199132 | Emancipation Proclamation | declared slaves free in those areas controlled by the Confederacy | |
| 6199133 | Copperheads | northern Democrats who opposed the war | |
| 6199134 | total war | targeting both military and civilian resources to destroy the South's ability to fight, used by Sherman | |
| 6199135 | William Tecumseh Sherman | leader of the "March to the Sea" | |
| 6199136 | Atlanta | this city was burned to the ground at the beginning of the "March to the Sea" | |
| 6199137 | confederate | the side that border states supported during the war | |
| 6199138 | Fort Sumter | first battle of the Civil War | |
| 6199139 | Gettysburg | turning point of the war | |
| 6199140 | siege | the Union used this strategy to defeat the Confederates at Vicksburg | |
| 6199141 | Bull Run | first MAJOR conflict of the war, showed the North that the South was not going to be defeated quickly | |
| 6199142 | blockade | strategy used by the North to stop supplies from reaching the South | |
| 6199143 | ironclads | new navy vessels created during the Civil War | |
| 6199144 | Sherman | man who said "War is Hell" | |
| 6199145 | Appomattox Courthouse | Place where the South offically surrendered in April 1865 | |
| 6199146 | Robert E Lee | leader of the Confederate Army | |
| 6199147 | Pickett's Charge | famous attempt by the South to reclaim the advantage during the Battle of Gettysburg, thousands of men are killed trying to charge up Cemetary Ridge | |
| 6199148 | 23,000 | the number of casualties during Antietam | |
| 6199149 | score | ________ is equal to 20 years | |
| 6199150 | Gettysburg Address | famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln to remember those lost at the last major battle of the Civil War | |
| 6199151 | Declaration of Independence | during the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln used words from this famous US document | |
| 6199152 | minie ball | new bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war | |
| 6199153 | morse code | form of communication used through telegrams | |
| 6199154 | Gattling Gun | new technology that led to the modern machine gun | |
| 6199155 | Monitor v. Merrimack | first battle between two iron clads | |
| 6199156 | 1861 | year Kansas became a state AND the year the Civil War started | |
| 6200439 | 13th amendment | addition to the Constitution that offically banned slavery in the United States | |
| 6200440 | 15th amendment | addition to the Constitution that gave men the right to vote in elections REGARDLESS of "race" | |
| 19915726 | 14th amendment | addition to the Constitution that provided CITIZENSHIP to African Americans after the Civil War, overruled Dred Scott | |
| 139457669 | Vicksburg | Grant won a siege here that gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River and destroyed the last major Confederate army in the West | |
| 139457670 | state rights | the original cause of the war; why Confederates seceded | |
| 139457671 | Antietam | bloodiest day in American history | |
| 139457672 | Antietam | after this battle President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, giving a new cause to the war | |
| 139457673 | sub | morpheme meaning "under" | |
| 139457674 | chron | morpheme meaning "time" | |
| 139457675 | im | morpheme meaning "not or into" | |
| 139457676 | casualty | killed, wounded, or captured during a battle | |
| 139457677 | rifling | process in which a spiral groove is added to the barrel of a gun to help the bullet spin, increasing power, range and accuracy | |
| 139457678 | Richmond | capital of the Confederate States of America | |
| 139457679 | Siege of Petersburg | a 9-month long siege between Lee and Grant that ultimately opened the way for Grant's capture of Richmond | |
| 139457680 | Wilderness Campaign | strategy used by Grant at the beginning of 1864 to push Lee back into Virginia and to capture Richmond | |
| 139457681 | Atlanta | second most important Confederate city because of its supply lines; captured by Sherman before beginning his March | |
| 139457682 | fore | morpheme meaning "located in front" | |
| 139457683 | resources | the major advantage of the Union over the Confederacy; had more people, supplies, money, etc. | |
| 139457684 | Samuel Colt | inventor of the first six shooter; side firearm that allowed six shots before reloading | |
| 139457685 | turrett | the name for a rotating cannon used on a naval vessel; the USS Monitor had the first of these used during the war | |
| 139457686 | amputation | the medical technique used widely during the Civil War to help save lives; could only be used on limbs | |
| 139457687 | disease | three times the number of soldiers died from this as compared to battle wounds | |
| 139457688 | Charleston, SC | the city Fort Sumter is located in; start of the war | |
| 139457689 | Scott | Union commander at the beginning of the war; was also in charge during the Mexican-American war fifteen years earlier | |
| 139457690 | Anaconda Plan | the strategy developed by Gen. Scott at the beginning of the war; idea was to blockade the South using the Union navy | |
| 139457691 | Stonewall Jackson | Lee's right hand man; killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville | |
| 139457692 | McClellan | Union commander who took over for Scott during the first part of the war; won a major battle at Antietam but was replaced after Lincoln was unhappy with his passive strategy | |
| 139457693 | McClellan | ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1864 | |
| 139457694 | Burnside | Union commander who took over after McClellan; resigns after a major loss at Fredericksburg; has a bridge named for him at Antietam | |
| 139457695 | Hooker | Union commander who took over after Burnside; resigns after a major loss at Chancellorsville | |
| 139457696 | Meade | Union commander at Gettysburg; replaced in 1864 by Grant | |
| 139457697 | secede | to leave a larger group | |
| 139457698 | foreign allies | Lee wanted to invade the north and capture cities because he realized to win the war the Confederates would need ______________ | |
| 139457699 | flank | the sides or ends of an army line | |
| 139457700 | reconstruction | the period after the Civil War (1865-1877) in which the US tried to rebuild and mend the relationships between the North and the South | |
| 139457701 | tele | morpheme meaning "far" | |
| 139457702 | spec | morpheme meaning "look or see" | |
| 139457703 | bene | morpheme meaning "good" | |
| 139457704 | post | morpheme meaning "after" | |
| 139457705 | auto | morpheme meaning "self" | |
| 139457706 | bio | morpheme meaning "life" | |
| 139457707 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| 139457708 | Frederick Douglas | runaway slave who wrote an autobiography telling how terrible slavery was; became an important abolitionist | |
| 139457709 | Republican Party | political group that formed in the mid 1850s with the main goal of stopping the spread of slavery; Lincoln was one of it's first members | |
| 139457710 | Election of 1860 | the final breaking point for the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln won because the Democratic Party split into a Northern and Southern canidate | |
| 139457711 | abolition | the movement to end slavery | |
| 139457712 | inflation | when the price of goods go up; more money and less goods; when supply is less than demand | |
| 139457713 | habeas corpus | protection under the Constitution that requires a cause be given when you are put in jail; suspended during the American Civil War by Lincoln | |
| 139471598 | re | morpheme meaning "again" |
